MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Visionary who realised the dream of a democratic architecture
Sydney Cooks contribution to the development of social housing is recognised in an excellent new book, says MICHAL BONCZA
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Cook’s Camden: The Making of Modern Housing
by Mark Swenarton
(Lund Humphries, £45)
SYDNEY COOK’S contribution to architecturally innovative social housing is the stuff of legend.
Post-war, many of the housing estates he inspired and helped build in London — the Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Highgate New Town, Maiden Lane, Polygon Road and Fleet Road — are today places of pilgrimage for students of architecture and urbanism from the world over.
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